Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. Internet Explorer.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

His far lesser known accomplishment is starring in the birth of internet retail. Though Kohn and Sting got the party started, the age of ecommerce didn’t truly begin in earnest until 1997. by credit card. That year, a spunky Wall Street trader pointed… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. And if you want to build a consumer Internet company, there are few role models. . 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

.” While hindsight is a wonderful thing, back in the dark days of 1994 when Amazon was founded, the Internet was far from the mainstream consciousness, so it’s understandable there would be a lot of hesitation to pump cash into this very early e-commerce initiative. “The first question people had, was what was the Internet?,”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. Lipitor (1997). But, the touchscreen wasn’t the iPhone’s only major innovation. In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg. What hook will keep customers’ clamoring for your product over time?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Sometimes lightning strikes twice. Which is an accurate statement.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. In 1997, Coca-Cola developed and released vending machines, which were able to accept payments through text messages. Mobile Payments.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Mark Cuban wasn’t always a successful Internet mogul and NBA owner. In 1997, Armstrong was fired from the French racing team Cofidis while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Disney later set his sights on creating a cartoon series that spurred the mega media conglomerate known as The Walt Disney Company. Mark Cuban. Lance Armstrong.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. Where it stops being cool is when gifted and courted developers face outdated infrastructures and the attitude of large Valley corporates. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. As a successful online marketer with all long distance clients, she had been running her business entirely over the internet for years. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4-

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

Fortunately, the advent of the internet has changed the way startups get their funding, making access to a variety of financial resources easier than ever before. Originally introduced in 1997 by the British progressive rock band Marillion, this means of acquiring capital has surged in popularity, and for good reason. Crowdfunding.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. The name kind of says it all.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2017

There wasn’t any internet or sending documents to clients via email back in the 80’s; it all required the physical transfer from person to person. I can remember being quoted in USA Today in 1997 on becoming a virtual assistant. Life was grand! Pick-Up and Delivery. Virtual Assistants. That one quote landed me numerous clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This was pre Internet. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. In today’s market you can prove your worth, in 1991 that was a bit harder. I thought they might want to know a thing or two about X.25,

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR). Employee Benefits. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Advertising.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. No one believed that you could make any money as an early stage VC and when we went out to raise our first fund, we heard over and over again that we were on a fools errand.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And in 1997, that was pretty cool. Well, there was this new thing called the internet and my friend was the director of the Miss Universe pageant. Soon enough we were selling our code as an efficient system for streaming large, complex files over dial up… and as the internet really took off, that became a powerful idea.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Thorough internet search. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. I have an internet cable provider and I have a satellite TV provider and they both kind of fall into that category of not getting it, making their experience really high friction.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection. In fact, Sushi is so international, that its adapted American version is now re-entering the Japanese market as a new, exotic food trend.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory. I think the same thing, the same metaphorical change, is happening now in domains outside pure Internet services. And by doing so dramatically expanded what was possible for entrepreneurs.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. But when Netflix went from movie deliveries through the mail to streaming services over the internet, it was then targeting Blockbuster’s core market.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

In 1997 we were IT consultants. The internet was young, business was terrific, and we had all the work we wanted. It’s amazing how much money we can save companies by leveraging our software and the IRS relocation tax guidelines simultaneously. Thanks to Jeff Ellman, UrbanBound. #14 14 – Out of Necessity. Photo Credit: Alex Mann.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The internet and almost universal access to it has meant that hundreds of millions of people can share their ideas, opinions and stories at the drop of a hat. All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S. Don’t wait for ‘the big idea’ Ideas are cheap and the best ideas are not necessarily the most original.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. It delivered monetization through its pricing scheme: users paid AOL for Internet access by the hour ($6.95 We spent much of 1997 renegotiating thousands of these deals. All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.

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